DailyDot Facebook Feedhttp://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook/Recent Facebook articles from Daily Doten-usTue, 03 Mar 2015 06:56:13 +0000LGBT activist apparently faked his own kidnapping with Facebook posthttp://www.dailydot.com/news/adam-hoover-facebook-kidnapping/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/49/73/4973ebcc9bad153f1d4623e1e165c14d.jpg'></p>
<p>Adam Hoover, a 22-year old LGBT activist and Chipotle employee from <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/cincinnati/">Cincinnati</a>, updated his <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook/">Facebook</a> page at 11:32pm Monday with a cry for help, stating that he'd been kidnapped and was locked in the trunk of his car.</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMy8yL1NjcmVlbl9TaG90XzIwMTUtMDMtMDNfYXRfNC4wOS4wNF9BTS5wbmciLCJjcmVkaXQiOiJGYWNlYm9vayIsImNyZWRpdExpbmsiOiIiLCJjYXB0aW9uIjoiIiwid2lkdGgiOiIiLCJ0ZXh0d3JhcCI6IiIsInR5cGUiOiJpbWFnZSJ9"></div><p>The plea was also posted to his <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/twitter/">Twitter</a> account.</p><p>Friends and family immediately began spreading the word, contacting police and keeping track of ongoing developments across social media. They enlisted the help of online celebrities like <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/tyler-oakley">Tyler Oakley</a> to <a href="https://twitter.com/tyleroakley/status/572642860215894017">spread the word</a>&nbsp;and listened in to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/14527/web">Hamilton County Police dispatch</a>, which revealed that they had found the car mentioned in Hoover's status update abandoned and were subsequently pursuing a blue four-door car with suspect.&nbsp;</p><p>At 12:42am, Rachel Manning, a news producer at WLWT Cincinnati,&nbsp;confirmed that Hoover had indeed been found.</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL1JhY2hlbE1hbm5pbmczL3N0YXR1cy81NzI2NDgyODEyNzQyNTMzMTMiLCJ0eXBlIjoib2VtYmVkIn0."></div><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL1JhY2hlbE1hbm5pbmczL3N0YXR1cy81NzI3MDg3ODU4ODc4MjU5MjAiLCJ0eXBlIjoib2VtYmVkIn0."></div>According to police, Hoover was discovered near his vehicle on U.S. 50 near the Ohio-Indiana state line roughly two hours after his call for help. Authorities said that he was being treated for hypothermia. A Hamilton County spokesperson confirmed that it was a third party who alerted police to Hoover after see his Facebook post.<p></p><p>The kidnapping suspects were identified as "two or three males, armed with a gun and driving a dark blue sedan," the spokesperson said.</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL0FuZHJld1NldHRlcnMvc3RhdHVzLzU3MjcwMjgzNjg1NDgwODU3NiIsInR5cGUiOiJvZW1iZWQifQ.."></div><p></p><p>Hoover, a prominent LGBT activist in Ohio, has been organizing marriage equality rallies since age 15. While still in high school, he cofounded <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MarriageEqualityOhio">Marriage Equality Ohio</a>, a grassroots organization seeking to repeal Ohio's 2004 constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage.&nbsp;</p><p>Ohio is one of four states—including Kentucky, Michigan, and Tennessee—presently embroiled in a U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the constitutionality of gay-marriage bans. Civil-rights advocates argue that the bans violate the 14th Amendment’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/why-equal-protection-trumps-federalism-in-the-same-sex-marriage-cases" target="_blank">Equal Protection Clause</a>.</p><p>Recently, Hoover led a <a href="http://www.gofundme.com/jr765k">fundraising effort</a> to create a memorial for <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/leelah-alcorn/">Leelah Alcorn</a>, a 17-year-old transgender girl who ended her own life and published a suicide note on <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/tumblr/">Tumblr</a>. In her letter, Alcorn wrote that her parents didn't accept her choice and described the difficulties she faced as a transgender person.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FindAdamHoover?src=tren" target="_blank">#FindAdamHoover</a>&nbsp;continued to trend after Hoover was found on Tuesday morning, and police continue to search for the kidnapping suspects. Neither Hoover nor Marriage Equality Ohio could be immediately reached for comment.</p><p><strong>Update 6:25am PT, March 3: </strong>Police now <a href="http://www.wlwt.com/news/gay-rights-activist-claims-he-was-abducted/31580018">say</a> that Hoover faked his kidnapping and is being charged with a misdemeanor offense.&nbsp;</p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL1JhY2hlbE1hbm5pbmczL3N0YXR1cy81NzI3MjM2MDAwNDM3MjA3MDQiLCJ0eXBlIjoib2VtYmVkIn0."></div><p>This story and its headline have been updated for clarity.&nbsp;</p><p><em>Photo via&nbsp;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonahowie/8583949219/in/photolist-e5wZ3t-qrKsaf-qRZUhY-akAjHV-qKWAFW-q2U1Rm-o9cE5v-qRLXcf-9KEdgg-bF4wme-g1psMs-9wGP22-ojSQbp-bF4wo8-9yQnJi-bF4wkk-mdKJvg-4TztKL-mdJVnv-a5Bs3z-oqGhBn-4amZDq-j6G7nE-hK9e7p-9mfUYL-dCWqPm-9yQovZ-7fPNji-qUEsaR-o8Q9A6-rbCp62-cit6nE-p5xAfF-9yQpXR-9yT2g1-6q8jtC-fegaYo-9yPeLg-25qqui-bX8R5C-qW4Rtj-kdFA8F-oBkNXW-adB6VJ-7hjveG-6TrKNf-fngoF8-h7n16G-icgqbN-2ATzC5">Jason Howie</a>/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)</em></p>
dell@dailydot.com (Dell Cameron)Tue, 03 Mar 2015 06:56:13 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/adam-hoover-facebook-kidnapping/NewsFacebookCrimeZuckerberg says he'd work with Google to provide worldwide Internethttp://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-internet-org-mobile-world/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/f2/12/f212677f8d50a83d2309951ac7b7a151.jpg'></p>
<p>On Monday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took some time to talk about why Facebook shouldn't get all the attention.&nbsp;</p><p>Facebook’s push to connect everyone to <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/facebook/">Facebook</a> and other online services with <a href="http://internet.org">Internet.org</a> is a <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-internet-org-app/">couple years old</a> at this point, and the growth of the project has extended to countries around the world, <a href="http://www.internet.org/press/internet-dot-org-app-now-available-in-india">most recently India</a>. The project has become an increasing focus for the company and its CEO.&nbsp;</p><p>Zuckerberg took the stage at <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/mobile-world-congress">Mobile World Congress</a> in Barcelona, and discussed, yet again, the importance of connecting people to loved ones, and communities, and services online. He stressed that by providing free or low-cost Internet services through Facebook’s program, it acts as an on-ramp for people to eventually pay for data. </p><p>Though some might view Facebook’s free services in emerging markets as a threat to telcos that provide data plans for a fee, mobile operators are supportive of the social network’s initiative. Three executives from Airtel, Millicom, and Telenor joined Zuckerberg on stage to tout the service, and said that by giving users limited access to mobile data, it whets the palate for more comprehensive service and encourages people to pay for data plans. </p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzMvMS9pbmRpYS1pbnRlcm5ldC1vcmcuanBnIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiSW50ZXJuZXQub3JnIiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6IiIsImNhcHRpb24iOiIiLCJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div><p></p><p>This inclusion took a little of the of the focus away from Facebook and put it on the concept at hand. “The face of Internet.org needs to be the companies that are doing the work, laying fiber on the ground, building infrastructure that is actually doing all the work around the world,” he said. Zuckerberg went on to say that both connecting people and helping telcos make money are important to Internet.org’s mission.</p><p>The world’s largest social network isn’t the only tech company angling to provide people with data and online services. Google <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/03/02/its-official-google-says-it-wants-to-offer-cellular-service/">announced plans</a> for its own wireless service this week, and it's working on projects like <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/google-project-loon-update/">Loon</a> and <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/google-fiber-new-areas/">Fiber</a> to provide people with Internet. </p><p>It appears that these Silicon Valley companies are competing for ways of providing potential users data and services they want. But when asked if Facebook would ever combine forces with Google to connect the world, Zuckerberg replied with a confident affirmation. </p><p>“When we launched Internet.org app in Zambia with our operating partner there, one of the apps we launched with is Google Search,” he said. “I’d love to do more with them.”</p><p>Zuckerberg remained mum on other technologies like the satellites and lasers Facebook is developing to deliver data to communities in developing countries that don’t yet have it. And while Zuckerberg might be trying to convince people it's the telcos that deserve all the credit, Facebook's plans to get on phones where people don't yet have it will benefit the company financially, too.</p><p>Clearly, Zuckerberg wants to make it obvious that Facebook isn't just&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-zuckerberg-sad-motives/">in it for the money.</a></p><p><em>Photo via </em><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/techcrunch/9728625374/sizes/l" target="_blank"><em>TechCrunch</em></a><em>/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
selena@dailydot.com (Selena Larson)Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:58:51 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-internet-org-mobile-world/FacebookTechInside the fundamentalist troll hole of Christians Against Dinosaurshttp://www.dailydot.com/lol/christians-against-dinosaurs/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/4b/12/4b1211f14d6a8e780b2d441c63c4273b.jpg'></p>
<p>A grassroots religious movement called Christians Against Dinosaurs contends that dinosaurs are a hoax perpetrated on the public by the paleontology community <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbueoxsVLBs" target="_blank">in exchange for</a> “millions of dollars, a pat on the back by the liberally biased media, and a big high-five from all the feminists who want to kill babies and scream at their bodies.”</p><p>The organization’s website does not lay out a specific agenda or set of beliefs beyond stating that dinosaurs do not exist. It’s easy to wonder if it might be a parody of religious fundamentalism, though its earnestness suggests otherwise. As&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law" target="_blank">Poe’s law</a> states, “without a clear indicator of an author’s intended sarcasm, it becomes impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.”</p><p>We got in touch with the group to learn more.</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjcvZGVueS5wbmciLCJjcmVkaXQiOiJDaHJpc3RpYW5zIEFnYWluc3QgRGlub3NhdXJzIiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuY2hyaXN0aWFuc2FnYWluc3RkaW5vc2F1cnMuY29tLyIsImNhcHRpb24iOiJBIHNjcmVlbnNob3QgZnJvbSB0aGUgQ0FEIHdlYnNpdGUuIiwid2lkdGgiOiIiLCJ0ZXh0d3JhcCI6IiIsInR5cGUiOiJpbWFnZSJ9"></div>A young woman named Kristen Auclair features prominently in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYxIsFJNY06h7K7XxK1zDEA" target="_blank">the group’s videos</a>, but does not claim any sort of leadership or spokesperson role. “There’s no actual leader,” she told the Daily Dot over the phone. “Our only tenet is to spread information about the anti-dinosaur theory and really educate people.”&nbsp;<p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbS93YXRjaD92PWhyeS1jUlJjWGE4IiwidHlwZSI6Im9lbWJlZCJ9"></div><p>The previously mentioned lack of cohesive mission statement is due to the group’s consisting of “lots of different denominations,” said Auclair. “There are some with much deeper scientific backgrounds than mine.” Ms. Auclair declined to name where she works today, having recently left a job in the insurance industry after “dozens and dozens of atheists and horrible, violent people” sent “profanities and vulgarities” to her former employer.</p><p></p><p>Jeff Wilson is a professor at University of Michigan’s <a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/earth/" target="_blank">Department of Earth and Environmental Studies</a> and a curator of its <a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/paleontology/" target="_blank">Museum of Paleontology</a>. He does not have a favorite dinosaur. “I’m not crazy for dinosaurs in that way,” he said, “and I didn’t grow up interested in them. I’m fascinated by complexity, particularly anatomical complexity—and dinosaurs have that.”</p><p>Wilson takes umbrage with this group’s claims. “Scientists have worked out the notion that dinosaurs are real examples of past life,” he told the Daily Dot. “There’s no idea of a dinosaur that someone constructed and then filled in the gaps. Fossils don’t lie, and we can’t make them do things they don’t do. They only go together a certain set of ways.”</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjYvdGhpc29uZS5wbmciLCJjcmVkaXQiOiJTY3JlZW5zaG90IiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmUuY29tL3dhdGNoP3Y9NFp5SUdfalp6QnMiLCJjYXB0aW9uIjoiS3Jpc3RlbiBBdWNsYWlyIG9mIENocmlzdGlhbnMgQWdhaW5zdCBEaW5vc2F1cnMgZGVuaWVzIHRoYXQgdGhlIHByZWhpc3RvcmljIGNyZWF0dXJlcyBldmVyIGV4aXN0ZWQuIiwid2lkdGgiOiIiLCJ0ZXh0d3JhcCI6IiIsInR5cGUiOiJpbWFnZSJ9"></div><p></p><p>The word “dinosaur” <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Owen#Fish.2C_reptiles.2C_birds.2C_and_naming_of_dinosaurs" target="_blank">was coined in 1842</a> by biologist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Owen" target="_blank">Richard Owen</a>, but Wilson explained to us that fossils have been found since the 17th century. “The organic nature of fossils is an issue that was resolved in the late 1600s by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Steno" target="_blank">Steno</a>. And while there is some ambiguity in certain fragmentary fossils, there are literally thousands and thousands of cases where we have the complete, articulated organism preserved in the rock, and there is little wiggle room in how we might reconstruct them,” he wrote to us in an email. “Examples of these span the tree of life and include dinosaur fossils.”</p><p>It’s established that fossils were found before anyone posited the existence of dinosaurs, but the Christians Against Dinosaurs material <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZyIG_jZzBs" target="_blank">repeatedly argues</a> that paleontologists found fossils <em>after</em> theorizing the existence of dinosaurs, that dinosaur-shaped fossils are a biased, after-the-fact discovery.&nbsp;</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbS93YXRjaD92PTRaeUlHX2paekJzIiwidHlwZSI6Im9lbWJlZCJ9"></div>Auclair suggests that fossils are carved by hand and that dinosaur skeletons, such as <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/09/04/dinosaur-skeleton-discovered/15031803/" target="_blank">this gigantic one discovered last year</a>, are manufactured artifacts: “With the advent of 3D printers, it’s increasingly easy to produce these on a massive scale. They could be a lot of different things. Artists have been carving sculptures out of marble and hard stone for centuries.”<p></p><blockquote class="">“Dinosaurs explain everything you ever wanted to know about religion. Why do bad things happen to good people? Because God’s too busy thinking about how sweet that Ankylosaurus was. Its tail was a baseball bat that it would use to hit a T-rex in his face!” —<a href="https://twitter.com/nealstas">Neal Stastny</a></blockquote><p>It is often in conservative Christianity’s interest to vie for a “young earth” and posit that our planet is aged between 6,000 and 10,000 years. This stands in stark contrast to the scientific position that the earth is some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" target="_blank">4.5 billion years old</a>.&nbsp;</p><blockquote class="pullquote">“If Christians Against Dinosaurs is satire, then it’s brilliant.”</blockquote><p>Jason Stellman and Christian Kingery are former pastors from a conservative tradition called Calvary Chapel who now host an <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/drunk-ex-pastors-profile/" target="_self">entertaining podcast called <em>Drunk Ex-Pastors</em></a>. Their lives are drastically different today, with Kingery now professing agnosticism and Stellman having converted to Catholicism, but the fundamental religious world is one they still know well. (Kingery’s favorite dinosaur is “T-Rex, because of all of the jokes you can make about how short their arms are.” Stellman’s is “whatever Dino from <em>The Flintstones</em> was.”)</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjcvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yN19hdF82LjEwLjM2X1BNLnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IkNocmlzdGlhbnMgQWdhaW5zdCBEaW5vc2F1cnMvRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><p></p><p>The pair explained the particulars of young earth creationism to us over the phone. “This is based on a woodenly literal reading of the genealogies in Genesis,” said Stellman. “But it’s easy to show that genealogies in Scripture have gaps. They are theological in nature, not meant to be taken literally. They play fast and loose with history, and young earth creationism presupposes that the Bible is a history book. It makes Christians look like they’re nuts.”</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjcvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yOF9hdF84LjA4LjM2X0FNLnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IlNjcmVlbnNob3QiLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFjZWJvb2suY29tL2dyb3Vwcy9ub25leGlzdGluZ2Rpbm9zYXVyLyIsImNhcHRpb24iOiIiLCJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div><br><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjcvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yOF9hdF84LjI3LjAxX0FNLnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IlNjcmVlbnNob3QiLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFjZWJvb2suY29tL2dyb3Vwcy9ub25leGlzdGluZ2Rpbm9zYXVyLyIsImNhcHRpb24iOiIiLCJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div>“If Christians Against Dinosaurs is satire, then it’s brilliant,” said Kingery. “With most sites you can click around and tell right away,” Kingery said, “but the fact that you can’t here shows to what extent fundamentalism has said some ridiculous things.”<p></p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjYvZ29mb3JpdC5wbmciLCJjcmVkaXQiOiJTY3JlZW5zaG90IiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmUuY29tL3dhdGNoP3Y9M0RXeHFYc0lYMUUiLCJjYXB0aW9uIjoiUmVsaWdpb3VzIHNjaWVuY2UgZW50aHVzaWFzdCBcIlNjaWVuY2UgTWlrZVwiIE1jSGFyZ3VlIGRlbGl2ZXJzIGEgcHJlc2VudGF0aW9uIG9uIHRoZSBpbnRlcnNlY3Rpb24gb2Ygc2NpZW5jZSBhbmQgZmFpdGguIiwid2lkdGgiOiIiLCJ0ZXh0d3JhcCI6IiIsInR5cGUiOiJpbWFnZSJ9"></div><p>In an effort to better bridge the gap between science and religion, we spoke to “Science Mike” McHargue, a Christian podcaster, writer, and thinker with a lifelong passion for science. He spent several years hiding his atheism from his family and religious community before coming back around to the Lord. He’s the first to tell you he has no formal pedigree in the field, instead describing himself as “the science equivalent of an NFL superfan. I spend incredible effort and energy to make sure I’m accurate, not to misspeak or make sensationalistic claims.” (His favorite dinosaurs are “probably the sauropods. Can you imagine the sounds of their footfalls?”)</p><blockquote class="pullquote">“I had to get them to let me leave the group. They taunted me about it. It was strange.”</blockquote><p>McHargue hosts the podcast <a href="http://mikemchargue.com/ask-science-mike/" target="_blank">Ask Science Mike</a>, which sees him answer all kinds of listener-submitted questions about science, faith, and the gray area in between. “Unequivocally, dinosaurs are completely real,” he said. “They are animals that were alive and exist in the fossil record, which is a reliable way to look into the past. We also have modern descendants of dinosaurs, like birds, that point to their existence. This might threaten deeply held ideas of some Christians, but it doesn’t change very good science.”</p><p>McHargue also explained why fossils are rather uncommon, a fact that Christians Against Dinosaurs points to as evidence of human forgery. “Fossils are made in a rare process when animals die in certain conditions such that the bones degrade and bond with the surrounding material. It’s not the original material, but rock in the same shape. We have fossilized impressions of plenty other things—shells, ferns, even footprints.”</p><p>Christians Against Dinosaurs’ vigor to challenge good science has to do with the nature of religious fundamentalism, an understanding of the world in which an ancient, sacred text portrays truth and the right way to live. One of its tenets is that contemporary morality is in decline. “If you hold that position and look at increasing acceptance of evolution, that makes you think the world is moving in the wrong direction and possibly even to its end,” said McHargue. “It provides an incredible motivation to work against that.”</p><p>In the early 1990s, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Smith_%28pastor%29" target="_blank">Chuck Smith</a> of Calvary Chapel came up with the theory of a repeating 6-1 pattern to be found throughout the Bible. It’s most obvious in the creation story—God worked for six days and rested for one. Believing that there would come a literal 1,000-year-long reign of Christ, Smith posited the earth has been here for 6,000 years and was about due for a 1,000-year rest.</p><p>This seems to closely jibe with Auclair’s own beliefs. “It makes sense that one of God’s ‘days’ isn’t the same length as one of our own 24-hour days,” she said. “I believe we’re living in the seventh day, with God still at rest.”</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjYvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yN19hdF8xMi40Mi4yN19QTS5wbmciLCJjcmVkaXQiOiJTY3JlZW5zaG90IiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmluZGllZ29nby5jb20vcHJvamVjdHMvY2hyaXN0aWFucy1hZ2FpbnN0LWRpbm9zYXVycyIsImNhcHRpb24iOiJUaGUgZnVuZGFtZW50YWxpc3QgZ3JvdXAgc2Vla3MgdG8gcmFpc2UgJDUsMDAwIG9uIEluZGllZ29nby4iLCJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div>Despite unsound claims, Christians Against Dinosaurs boasts a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/nonexistingdinosaur/" target="_blank">15,000-member Facebook group</a> for discussing its ideas. Facebook user Rita Laura joined the group on a lark, thinking it was satire. (Her favorite dinosaur is “all of them, but triceratops ranks pretty high on the list.”)<p></p><p>“I mostly saw posts about liar atheists and scientists,” she told us. “They called everyone dressed in a dino costume or [who] allowed their children to be dressed in a dino costume evil.” Laura put it together that this was not satire. “I’m still struggling with that. … Are people really that dumb to not believe in dinosaurs, or is it an elaborate prank on the rest of us?” Laura had difficulty leaving the group upon her realization. “They disabled the ‘unfollow’ button, I think. … I had to get them to let me leave the group. They taunted me about it. It was strange.”</p><p>Christians Against Dinosaurs has since launched an <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/christians-against-dinosaurs" target="_blank">IndieGogo crowdfunding campaign</a> to raise $5,000 for an ad campaign to further spread its ideas. “This is a 100 percent volunteer effort. No one wants income,” said Auclair. “Personally, I’d love to see a billboard.” For a $25 pledge to the cause, backers can receive an autographed picture of Ms. Auclair.</p><p>She does not have a favorite dinosaur.</p><p><em>Illustration by Max Fleishman</em></p>
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Dylan LoveSat, 28 Feb 2015 15:00:00 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/lol/christians-against-dinosaurs/PoliticsFacebookLOL'Looney Tunes' takes over the runway at Milan Fashion Weekhttp://www.dailydot.com/geek/jeremy-scott-moschino-looney-tunes-milan-fashion-week/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/0c/fd/0cfd0382eab7db56d3a39a81edf0e92d.jpg'></p>
At Milan Fashion Week on Thursday, fashion went loony when <a href="http://www.moschino.com/" target="_blank">Moschino</a>'s Autumn Winter 2015 collection walked the runway. The <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/looney-tunes/" target="_self">Looney Tunes</a> received a makeover from designer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ITSJEREMYSCOTT/timeline" target="_blank">Jeremy Scott</a> for a ready-to-wear collection that will transport you straight back to your childhood.<p>Familiar cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester, and more featured prominently in the line. The '90s-inspired pieces included basketball jerseys, sweaters, purses, and more. This collection follows a long line of other colorful work by Scott which includes items inspired by <a href="http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/news/fashion/2014/09/18/moschino-fashion-show-spring-summer-2015-barbie-inspired" target="_blank">Barbie</a> and <a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/02/spongebob-mcdonalds-were-in-the-moschino-show.html" target="_blank">Spongebob</a>. </p><p>Watch the Looney Tunes collection debut on the runway and see images of the line below.</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20vdmlkZW8ucGhwP3Y9MTAxNTMxMzgyOTU2ODA5OTAmc2V0PXZiLjQ1NTg2MjE1OTg5JnR5cGU9MiZ0aGVhdGVyIiwidHlwZSI6Im9lbWJlZCJ9"></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20vSVRTSkVSRU1ZU0NPVFQvcGhvdG9zL3BiLjUwNDk3OTEyNjIxMDc1OS4tMjIwNzUyMDAwMC4xNDI1MDcxOTY1Li84NDgwODMzNDE5MDAzMzQvP3R5cGU9MyZ0aGVhdGVyIiwidHlwZSI6Im9lbWJlZCJ9"></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20vSVRTSkVSRU1ZU0NPVFQvcGhvdG9zL3BiLjUwNDk3OTEyNjIxMDc1OS4tMjIwNzUyMDAwMC4xNDI1MDcxOTY1Li84NDgwODc3MDUyMzMyMzEvP3R5cGU9MyZ0aGVhdGVyIiwidHlwZSI6Im9lbWJlZCJ9"></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20vTU9TQ0hJTk8ub2ZmaWNpYWxwYWdlL3Bob3Rvcy9wYi40NTU4NjIxNTk4OS4tMjIwNzUyMDAwMC4xNDI1MDcyMDU4Li8xMDE1MzEzOTU1MjM0MDk5MC8_dHlwZT0zJnRoZWF0ZXIiLCJ0eXBlIjoib2VtYmVkIn0."></div><p><em>H/T </em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/27/moschino-looney-tunes-fall-2015-photos-_n_6767854.html" target="_blank"><em>The Huffington Post</em></a><em> | Photo via </em><em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ITSJEREMYSCOTT/photos/a.504984842876854.1073741826.504979126210759/848083341900334/?type=1&amp;theater" target="_blank">Jeremy Scott/Facebook</a></em></p><p></p>
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lisa@dailydot.com (Lisa Granshaw)Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:00:12 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/geek/jeremy-scott-moschino-looney-tunes-milan-fashion-week/FacebookGeekFacebook reveals who thinks The Dress is blue and black or white and goldhttp://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-the-dress-data/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/c4/c2/c4c20f442220d0c264638b8005144561.jpg'></p>
<p>The debate over what color <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/the-dress">The Dress</a> is has absolutely engulfed the Internet in the past 24 hours, and it should come as no surprise that <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook">Facebook</a> has served as a major platform for the debate. Facebook noticed this, and subsequently&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/all-about-that-dress/10152920170998859">decided to crunch the numbers</a>. </p><p>Using an untold number of posts regarding the dress color debate, the company put together an impressive rundown on who believes the dress is a certain color, and why. The data is broken down into graphs based on gender, age, time of day, and even what kind of device is being used to declare a side.</p><p>Males, young people, and users posting from a computer were more likely to vote for blue and black, while females, older users, and those using smartphones were more likely to see the dress as being white and gold. Votes for the blue and black team also rose steadily as the day wore on. </p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjcvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yN19hdF80LjU2LjQxX1BNLnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IkZhY2Vib29rIiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6IiIsImNhcHRpb24iOiIiLCJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjcvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yN19hdF80LjU2LjQ2X1BNLnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IkZhY2Vib29rIiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6IiIsImNhcHRpb24iOiIiLCJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjcvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yN19hdF80LjU3LjEwX1BNLnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IkZhY2Vib29rIiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6IiIsImNhcHRpb24iOiIiLCJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjcvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yN19hdF80LjU3LjE2X1BNLnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IkZhY2Vib29rIiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6IiIsImNhcHRpb24iOiIiLCJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div>Facebook wants us to know it isn't picking sides, though. The team declares the entire thing amounted to “a fascinating natural experiment” regarding perception. Fascinating and deeply frustrating.&nbsp;<p></p><p><em>Illustration via Jason Reed</em></p>
mwehner@dailydot.com (Mike Wehner)Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:19:00 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-the-dress-data/FacebookTechTexas firefighter allegedly kills neighbor's dogs, brags about it on Facebookhttp://www.dailydot.com/crime/texas-firefighter-facebook-brag-about-killing-neighbor-dogs/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/6b/d3/6bd3cfc939fff7df7157b2c123ced016.jpg'></p>
<p><em>This story contains explicit material</em>.</p><p>Tim Conatser, a volunteer firefighter with Union Valley Fire Department in Royse City, Texas, is definitely doing <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook/" target="_self">Facebook</a> wrong—but that’s the least of his problems. More worrying is the pride he apparently took in shooting a neighbor’s two dogs for wandering onto his lawn.</p><p>In a post that went viral after it was shared by one Kimberly Jones, Conaster wrote: “Somebody didn’t put any truth [sic] my warning. Keep your damn dogs on your property.” In the accompanying photo, Spike and Gordo, yellow and black labrador retrievers owned by the family of Pulido Rodrigo, can be seen lying dead and bloodied on snowy grass.</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20va2ltYmVybHkuam9uZXMuZGFsbGFzL3Bob3Rvcy8xMDIwNDg0ODMwNDU4NjIzMiIsInR5cGUiOiJvZW1iZWQifQ.."></div>“I'm in shock! I don't know, I don't understand these people. Bad people, I don't know,” Rodrigo <a href="http://www.fox4news.com/story/28199241/firefighter-fired-after-posting-picture-of-dead-dogs#.VO4IE-avuU0.facebook" target="_blank">told a Fox affiliate</a>, claiming that he never received any warnings, threats, or complaints about the dogs. The Union Valley Fire Department, meanwhile, has stated that its leaders “do not condone the recent actions of one of our firefighters” and have dismissed him in accordance with policy but have no jurisdiction over the case. The Hunt County Constable’s Office and the SPCA will investigate and decide whether to file animal cruelty charges.<p></p><p>Many have reacted to Conaster’s photo with unbridled hostility. “You got away with killing g the right persons dog Mr. Tim,, if that had been my dogs I'd have broken your wrists and ankles and threw u in my hog pen covered in peanut butter,” wrote one commenter on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Conaster/333328596863686?fref=nf" target="_blank">a Facebook page about the story</a>. Others, according to Jones, have defended Conaster’s actions. “I am a dog rescuer. I dedicate my love to it. The only person at fault here is the one who didn't properly contain their dogs. Sure, this guy shot them, but what if he had livestock he was protecting?” one woman asked.&nbsp;</p><p>Jones then followed up with another disturbing photo:</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20va2ltYmVybHkuam9uZXMuZGFsbGFzL3Bob3Rvcy8xMDIwNDg1NzEwNjA4NjI2NCIsInR5cGUiOiJvZW1iZWQifQ.."></div>Conaster may have just learned that revenge is a dish best served online.<p></p><p><em>Photo via </em><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smerikal/5822095069" target="_blank"><em>smerikal</em></a><em>/</em><em>Flickr</em><em> (CC BY SA 2.0)</em></p>
miles@dailydot.com (Miles Klee)Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:26:01 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/crime/texas-firefighter-facebook-brag-about-killing-neighbor-dogs/NewsFacebookCrimeThis weird Facebook trick gives your phone number a namehttp://www.dailydot.com/lol/your-phone-number-has-a-name-facebook-trick/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/c7/46/c746900e4f582476aae9c41059e72dc2.jpg'></p>
<p>A sketchy and mysterious image has begun to spread on <a href="http://dailydot.com/communities/facebook/">Facebook</a>. It tells you to type the last three digits of your phone number into Facebook so you can purportedly discover your phone’s “name.”</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjQvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yM19hdF8xLjAyLjQ2X1BNLnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IkZhY2Vib29rIiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6IiIsImNhcHRpb24iOiIiLCJ3aWR0aCI6IjY0MCIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div><p></p><p>Social networks and chat platforms are filled with Easter eggs. How cool was it to type in “%n” on your AIM profile to make a reader’s screen name appear? Then there’s Gchat, where you can unleash a <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/google-hangout-hidden-emoji/">stampede of ponies</a> in every chat. And on Facebook, you can <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/How-to-make-chat-symbols/177737490684?sk=info&amp;tab=page_info">unlock a shark emoticon</a> with the right sequence of characters. There’s something undeniably appealing about tricks like this—it’s essentially coding for neophytes.&nbsp;</p><p>This Facebook trick is no scam—it actually works.&nbsp;</p><p></p><ol><li>Take the last three digits of your phone number.</li><li>Type it in the comments to any story with this format: @[618:0]</li><li>Hit enter.</li></ol><p></p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjQvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yM19hdF8xLjIwLjM0X1BNLnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6Ik1hdHQgQ3Jvd2xleS9GYWNlYm9vayIsImNyZWRpdExpbmsiOiIiLCJjYXB0aW9uIjoiIiwid2lkdGgiOiI2NDAiLCJ0ZXh0d3JhcCI6IiIsInR5cGUiOiJpbWFnZSJ9"></div>That is to say, typing this sequence of digits into a comment thread will yield a name—in my case, “952” gave me “Peter Schwartzstein.” For best results, use your phone: Facebook automatically put a space between the @ and [ symbols when I tried it on my computer, and other times it replaced the digits with a question-mark symbol.<p></p><p>Whether this trick really gives you your phone’s secret name is less likely. According to <a href="http://www.hoax-slayer.com/cell-phone-has-name.shtml" target="_blank">Hoax-Slayer</a> (get on your game, Snopes), here’s what’s actually occurring: You’re using a shortcode to access a random Facebook user’s identification number.&nbsp;</p><p>Each Facebook profile comes equipped with a unique number to identify it, and when you type the digits with the above code, it makes the user with this number appear. You can confirm this by typing “facebook.com/952” (or your equivalent) into your address bar. [<em>Editor’s note: This works, and my digits redirected the page to the profile of a dude named Bryan. —CF</em>]</p><p>Most ID numbers have more digits, suggesting that the names popping up belong to some of Facebook’s earlier users.&nbsp;</p><p>All in all, it’s an interesting piece of Facebook manipulation and a fun way to stalk random people, if not a great way to name your phone. Might be recommend <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/what-should-your-iphones-name-actually-be#.xfG3bkZ4Rp" target="_blank">this quiz</a> instead?</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjQvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yNF9hdF83LjE4LjA4X1BNLnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IkplbiBMZXdpcy9CdXp6RmVlZCIsImNyZWRpdExpbmsiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmJ1enpmZWVkLmNvbS9qZW5sZXdpcy93aGF0LXNob3VsZC15b3VyLWlwaG9uZXMtbmFtZS1hY3R1YWxseS1iZSMuaXVkUHdZNXJNIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><br><em>Illustration by Max Fleishman</em><p></p>
matthewpcrowley@gmail.com (Matt Crowley)Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:00:00 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/lol/your-phone-number-has-a-name-facebook-trick/FacebookLOLThis might be the most action-packed hit-and-run video everhttp://www.dailydot.com/crime/man-holds-on-to-car-hit-and-run/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/a6/9e/a69e50ce426de93fe5e4fb553a30c8cd.jpg'></p>
<p>In a feat worthy of John McClane or Jason Bourne, 24-year-old Justin Finch held fast to a car that ran him over in a Phoenix parking lot—even as its driver tried to speed away.</p><p>Bystander Shaina Russell caught the shocking turn of events on video. “That motherfucker,” another witness can be heard to remark. “You see shit like this in the movies.”</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20vdmlkZW8ucGhwP3Y9ODA3ODQ0ODUyNTk3Mzk3IiwidHlwZSI6Im9lbWJlZCJ9"></div>According to Finch, who despite being pinned between two vehicles came away with nothing more than superficial injuries, this was the tail end of a confrontation that began when the people getting into the car leveled a gay slur at him. He admitted to slamming one man to the ground in the ensuing scuffle, <a href="http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/28162952/2015/02/20/alleged-hit-and-run-caught-on-video?clienttype=generic&amp;smartdevicecgbypass" target="_blank">Fox reported</a>. Cops stopped the car a half mile away from the scene of the fight, though everyone involved declined to press charges at that time.<p></p><p>However, passenger Orlando Munoz, 16, claimed to have been assaulted by Finch. His uncle and his uncle’s girlfriend were also in the car, the latter allegedly behind the wheel. Munoz’s mother, Yvette, who is gay, described the incident as “foolishness,” saying that “both parties should have walked away,” and insisted that the apparent hit-and-run was in no way motivated by bigotry.&nbsp;</p><p>Nevertheless, a police unit that focuses on hate crime is investigating.</p><p><em>H/T </em><a href="http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/28162952/2015/02/20/alleged-hit-and-run-caught-on-video?clienttype=generic&amp;smartdevicecgbypass" target="_blank"><em>Fox 10 Phoenix</em></a><em> | Photo via </em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=807844852597397" target="_blank"><em>Fox 10 Phoenix</em></a><em>/</em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FOX10Phoenix?fref=photo" target="_blank"><em>Facebook</em></a></p>
miles@dailydot.com (Miles Klee)Sat, 21 Feb 2015 20:03:33 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/crime/man-holds-on-to-car-hit-and-run/NewsFacebookCrimeFacebook's real name policy is still broken—so let's fix ithttp://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-real-name-policy-native-americans/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/ce/33/ce3328da4a8da667feeb82904f4ac7e2.jpg'></p>
<p>Try as it might to improve a tricky policy integral to its platform, <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/realnamepolice-facebook-real-names-policy/">malicious&nbsp;users</a> are still flagging legitimate <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook/">Facebook</a> accounts as&nbsp;fakes. The issue plagued the <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/facebook-lgbt-transgender-name-policy/">LGBTQ and drag community</a> late last year, as hundreds of anecdotal reports popped up that user accounts<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/facebook-demands-drag-queens-change-names/"> had been suspended</a> for violating Facebook’s since-revised Terms of Service agreement.&nbsp;</p><p>But the revisions, largely an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/112146705538576">overhaul of problematic&nbsp;language </a>around “legal names” and an unevenly enforced tool for reinstating an account by providing proof of an IRL identity, aren’t cutting it. This week, it was widely reported&nbsp;that&nbsp;the&nbsp;Native American community is the latest&nbsp;marginalized group&nbsp;to have their identities&nbsp;<a href="http://lastrealindians.com/facebook-dont-believe-in-indian-names-by-dana-lone-hill/">called into question</a> on Facebook. As the <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/facebooks-name-policy-strikes-again-time-native-americans">Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports</a>:</p><blockquote class="">Lone Hill isn’t the only Native person who has been affected. As Aura Bogado at Colorlines points out: "The company appears to have been questioning certain Native users since at least 2009,when it deactivated Parmelee Kills The Enemy’s account. More recently, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Facebook deleted a number of Native accounts." She’s referring to the takedown of Shane Creepingbear’s account.</blockquote><p>But why is this still happening at all?</p><p>Last year, Facebook suggested that&nbsp;one user abused its reporting tool to flag thousands of accounts, including many outspoken&nbsp;members of the LGBTQ and drag communities. We covered that situation extensively at the time and tracked down <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/realnamepolice-facebook-real-names-policy/">one anonymous user</a> who claimed responsibility for Facebook’s accidental real names crackdown. In light of those events, Facebook did implement some well-meaning changes to its identity policy, but those solutions remain oversimplified, unevenly implemented, and most puzzling of all, constructed to clean up the mess of a few bad seeds rather than removing the tool these same users are exploiting. &nbsp;</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjAvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yMF9hdF8xLjMyLjQ5X1BNLnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IkZhY2Vib29rIiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6IiIsImNhcHRpb24iOiIiLCJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div><span style="font-family: Lato, Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px;"><p>So here's how we think Facebook could fix it.&nbsp;</p>1) Remove the reporting tool</span><p></p><p>The tool ostensibly exists so that Facebook users can report actual abuses, like an&nbsp;account&nbsp;impersonating someone's identity. In that situation, Facebook’s rules specify that the affected user issue the report personally. Obviously users like @RealNamePolice are abusing Facebook’s existing set of tools and possibly even doing so without being logged in to a Facebook account, making their actions impossible to trace. Requiring that reports come from existing Facebook users so the harassment can be tracked is both simple and easy to implement.</p><h3>2) Change the ToS</h3><p>It doesn’t currently violate Facebook’s Terms of Service if a user abuses Facebook’s own tools to target specific groups, like the LGBTQ&nbsp;and Native American users. Hey, maybe it should! Facebook should be able to identify the users reporting accounts like Dana Lone Hill. In what possible scenario could a single user reporting huge pockets of Facebook accounts possibly do more good than harm? The tool obviously isn’t working as intended, instead being leveraged for harassment—something that <em>is </em>against Facebook’s terms.</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMjAvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0yMF9hdF8yLjA5LjU3X1BNLnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IkZhY2Vib29rIiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6IiIsImNhcHRpb24iOiIiLCJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div><h3>3) Start from scratch&nbsp;</h3><p>Facebook&nbsp;is really <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/159096464162185">trying&nbsp;to be flexible</a> with how it allows users to help it identify them, but it just doesn’t work for some of its platform’s most vulnerable communities. Rather than straight-up requiring a passport or driver’s license, the social network now accepts two forms of less formal identity, like a library card and&nbsp;a piece of mail, for instance. The thing is, those forms of name verifications will most often reflect a legal name, which, like we’ve established, is not always the same as "the name they use in real life,” which is what Facebook is really trying to nail down here.&nbsp;</p><p>Here’s the statement that a Facebook spokesperson issued in response to my questions around its policy’s more problematic nuances:</p><blockquote class="">“We are committed to ensuring that all members of the Facebook community can use the&nbsp;names that they use in real life.&nbsp;Having people use their authentic names makes them more&nbsp;accountable, and also helps us root out accounts created for malicious purposes, like harassment, fraud, impersonation and hate speech. Over the last several months, we’ve made some significant improvements in the implementation of this standard, including enhancing the overall experience and expanding the options available for verifying an authentic name. We have more work to do, and our teams will continue to prioritize these improvements.”</blockquote><p>Facebook reached out to me to clarify&nbsp;the&nbsp;efforts its made to&nbsp;improve the names policy and does genuinely seem to mean well.&nbsp;That said, wouldn’t these solutions make things easier for everyone? Facebook is still unwittingly suspending legitimate profiles, probably many more than we even know about. When the policy blew up in the queer community last year, Facebook’s haste to restore an account was a direct factor of drumming up bad press&nbsp;or “knowing a guy” (drag queens were trading Facebook @fb.com employee email addresses like&nbsp;Pokémon&nbsp;cards).</p><p>Facebook is in a tough spot. Unlike&nbsp;quirkier social networks like <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/twitter/">Twitter</a> or <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/tumblr/">Tumblr</a>&nbsp;where pseudonyms thrive,&nbsp;Facebook users&nbsp;overwhelmingly operate a single account tied to their real-life identity. That notion of true identity is the company’s lifeblood,&nbsp;and it’s what makes users feel&nbsp;relatively insulated from the systemic harassment that plagues other&nbsp;social platforms.&nbsp;</p><p>It’s understandable that the company is reluctant to mess with a good thing, especially when that good thing is 1.4 billion monthly active users strong. But identity is as important to Facebook’s users as it is to the company itself. It’s time to adjust the system to reflect that.&nbsp;</p><p><em>Illustration by Max Fleishman&nbsp;</em></p>
taylor@thedailydot.com (Taylor Hatmaker)Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:30:00 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-real-name-policy-native-americans/FacebookTechKentucky police department issues arrest warrant for Queen Elsa from 'Frozen'http://www.dailydot.com/geek/police-arrest-warrant-frozen-elsa/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/e7/8f/e78f0cba4e0c4a0167f4e44f8de0b9aa.jpg'></p>
With <a href="http://www.weather.com/storms/winter/news/winter-storm-pandora-snow-ice-south-midwest-northeast-rockies-forecast">winter storms</a> continuing to blast various parts of the country, it’s no surprise that people are looking forward to an end to this freezing weather. That's why the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Harlan-City-Police-Department/162407336484?sk=timeline" target="_blank">Harlan City Police Department</a>&nbsp;has <a href="http://www.people.com/article/harlan-kentucky-posts-warran-elsa-frozen?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag">issued an "arrest warrant"&nbsp;for Queen Elsa</a>, the main character of Disney's&nbsp;<em><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/frozen/" target="_self">Frozen</a>.&nbsp;</em><p>In the film, Queen Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel) has the power to create eternal winter. So the Harlan City Police Department decided to post an all points bulletin (APB) for Queen Elsa on its&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook/" target="_self">Facebook</a>&nbsp;page in a humorous attempt to stop the cold weather right at its source.&nbsp;</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20vcGVybWFsaW5rLnBocD9zdG9yeV9mYmlkPTEwMTUyNjQ4NTg3NTY2NDg1JmlkPTE2MjQwNzMzNjQ4NCIsInR5cGUiOiJvZW1iZWQifQ.."></div><p></p><p>The post has gone viral, earning more than 6,000 likes and 13,000 shares at the time of this writing. In response, the Harlan City Police Department has posted the following notice on its Facebook page:</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20vcGVybWFsaW5rLnBocD9zdG9yeV9mYmlkPTEwMTUyNjQ5MjIzNDY2NDg1JmlkPTE2MjQwNzMzNjQ4NCIsInR5cGUiOiJvZW1iZWQifQ.."></div>Sorry, Elsa. Looks like you're gonna want to stay away from Kentucky for a while.<p></p><p></p><p><em>H/T </em><a href="http://www.people.com/article/harlan-kentucky-posts-warran-elsa-frozen?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag" target="_blank"><em>People.com</em></a><em> | Screengrab via&nbsp;</em><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHp_LYMV9zE">Walt Disney Animation Studios/YouTube</a></em></p>
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lisa@dailydot.com (Lisa Granshaw)Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:19:13 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/geek/police-arrest-warrant-frozen-elsa/FacebookLOLLifestyleGeekPolice take to Facebook to find rightful owner of lost cocainehttp://www.dailydot.com/crime/police-look-for-cocaine-owner-on-facebook/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/1d/b3/1db394e334dc160f502750b53f1481fc.jpg'></p>
<p>While there have been plenty of reports of <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/police-brutality/">police brutality</a> and <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/racial-profiling/">racial profiling</a> in last few months, not&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/cops/">every cop</a>&nbsp;is out to abuse his or her power. Some officers are kind, caring individuals who seek to serve the community by reuniting lost property with its rightful owner. </p><p>Take the police department of Crewe, Va., for example. After these hardworking public servants were called to a Super Dollar about a large bag of cocaine that had been found on the premises, the officers pursued ever possible channel in an attempt to find the drug's owner. The officers stopped at nothing, even <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/facebook/">taking to Facebook</a> in hopes of finding someone who might be missing their big ol' bag of cocaine.&nbsp;</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20vQ3Jld2VQb2xpY2VEZXBhcnRtZW50L3Bvc3RzLzgyOTM0MDkyMzc2OTE3MCIsInR5cGUiOiJvZW1iZWQifQ.."></div><p></p><p>But before you go rushing to declare the drugs yours, you should know there's zero chance you'll be getting them back. After being asked numerous times if there was a chance they would dispense the drugs to the owner, the Crewe police department took to the comment section of the post to make a few things clear.&nbsp;</p><blockquote class="">NO! We will not give you back your illegal narcotics. The narcotics are weighed, photographed and placed into a evidence locker to be destroyed upon the approval of the courts. We&nbsp;distribute lots of things, such as lollipops to our favorite kids, and tickets to lead footed friends, but we do not re-distribute your drugs. We hope this clarifies our post a bit more.</blockquote><p>According to administrative assistant Beverly Redman, no one has come forward to stake their claim to the narcotics yet, but they weren't expecting that to happen. "We wanted to show people that we're human, too," she told <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/police-facebook-cocaine-super-dollar-store-165930347.html">Yahoo News</a>. "We have a sense of humor. We're not all 'just cops.'"&nbsp;</p><em>H/T </em><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/police-facebook-cocaine-super-dollar-store-165930347.html" style="font-style: italic;">Yahoo News</a><em> | Photo via </em><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/perspective/14878299533/in/photolist-oEKb6K-nYQzAX-6syqiH-7t6x1w-5uTcze-6cKGaE-mxWNi-DE7T2-4MghVA-5R8zPy-8ZL12h-5zYHPJ-dHYmYu-2EUCVj-3JGBpw-7Dhfpr-7evTqS-6syqjk-6peFH5-4NPfdS-nZa1oC-omtih2-7rpvHa-7cYGeq-PG7Bd-6Ju8rQ-92peGK-5H64X2-bhT99Z-5K8b5S-4iQuQX-nfLraF-ihSPCP-c2VaCu-9rCepR-7h5zYe-3JGASU-d5GW8h-8g4UBE-hBXorv-7G7f2M-NPzaj-cHyzud-4WM7y2-bnXGSH-5NNrA-czg3zW-6xQvAK-2o4k7-b946pa" style="font-style: italic;">perspective</a><em>/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)</em>
gregory.seals@gmail.com (Greg Seals)Fri, 20 Feb 2015 01:56:57 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/crime/police-look-for-cocaine-owner-on-facebook/FacebookCrimeYou can now add Pusheen directly to your Facebook photoshttp://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-stickers-photo-app/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/45/e2/45e2780caf0a8da1e145d643da8bcdb3.jpg'></p>
<p>You probably woke up and thought this was a normal day. You had coffee, put some pants on, went to work, the usual stuff. But you, my friend, were deeply mistaken. In <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook/">Facebook's</a> most earth-shattering news since the <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-stickers-in-comments/">Great Stickers in Comments Update of 2014</a>, the social network will allow users to add stickers to photos right from the main Facebook app.</p><p>Yes, you heard that right. You can take a selfie and add Pusheen nomming on a tiny doughnut right next to you,&nbsp;<em>just like you guys are hanging out</em>.&nbsp;</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMTgvcHVzaGVlbi5naWYiLCJjcmVkaXQiOiJGYWNlYm9vayIsImNyZWRpdExpbmsiOiIiLCJjYXB0aW9uIjoiIiwid2lkdGgiOiIiLCJ0ZXh0d3JhcCI6IiIsInR5cGUiOiJpbWFnZSJ9"></div>If you need to sit down, we don't blame you. Facebook's newest sticker update will roll out soon to both Android and iOS users, inviting you to add a sticker (or many, many stickers) to a photo before uploading it via the mobile app.&nbsp;<p></p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMTkvU2NyZWVuX1Nob3RfMjAxNS0wMi0xOV9hdF8xMS41Mi4zMF9BTS5wbmciLCJjcmVkaXQiOiJTdGlja2VyZWQiLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><br>Something akin to this had previously been possible with <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-stickered-app/">Stickered for Messenger</a>, an app under the wing of Facebook's Creative Labs. By now, everyone is sick to death of making room for new spin-off Facebook apps, so we're happy to see the company enhancing a well-loved feature within its core mobile experience for a change.&nbsp;<p></p><p>If you need us, we'll be plastering our pictures with Pusheens. If you need to plan your sticker game in advance, we recommend our comprehensive ranking of the <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/best-facebook-stickers/">best Facebook stickers</a> ever to grace the social network.</p><p><em>Screengrab via Facebook</em></p>
taylor@thedailydot.com (Taylor Hatmaker)Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:06:54 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-stickers-photo-app/FacebookTechThe virtual reality version of Facebook is coming http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-virtual-reality-app/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/50/7b/507be6df2181d63d56ec4eaec68b1bda.jpg'></p><p><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook/" target="_self">Facebook</a> plans to continue its push into virtual reality, according to Chris Cox, chief product officer for the social media giant. Cox outlined in broad strokes the company’s plans to bring VR to its apps at Tuesday night’s Code/Media conference in Dana Point, Calif.</p><p>“I mean, virtual reality is pretty cool. We’re working on apps for VR,” <a href="http://recode.net/2015/02/17/facebook-is-working-on-virtual-reality-apps-that-it-thinks-beyonce-will-use/" target="_blank">Cox told interviewer and &nbsp;Recode senior editor Peter Kafka.</a></p><p>Cox did not offer much in the way of details or a concrete timeline for his proposals. His comments nevertheless signal the company’s intentions for its <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-bought-oculus/" target="_self">$2 billion purchase of Oculus VR</a>, creators of the popular Oculus Rift VR headset.</p><p>“When you’re in Facebook [currently], you’re just sending around these bits of experience—a photo, a video, a thought,” Cox said. “But with VR you’ll be ‘sending a fuller picture.’”</p><p>Cox also said users will be able to create their own VR content. “Totally. You’ll do it, Beyoncé will do it.”</p><p>It remains unclear how Cox envisions users doing this, since such production still requires a significant investment in time and equipment. Cox acknowledges these difficulties and admits that it could be “awhile” before we see VR become an everyday element of the Facebook experience.</p><p>Cox’s comments echo those of Mark Zuckerberg when he <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=10" target="_blank">announced the Oculus acquisition</a> last March. “Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures,” wrote the Facebook CEO.</p><p>For now we’ll have to take Zuck quite literally and continue to imagine. But Facebook’s apparent seriousness about tackling the budding technology means we could see its full-fledged implementation sooner than we thought.</p><p><em>H/T <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/18/8058413/facebook-is-working-on-virtual-reality-versions-of-its-apps" target="_blank">Recode</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;Photo via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/lhl/15615565234/sizes/l">lhl</a>/Flickr (CC BY SA 2.0)</em></p>Alex La FerlaWed, 18 Feb 2015 14:40:51 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-virtual-reality-app/FacebookTechKrispy Kreme store inexplicably created a 'KKK Wednesday' children's eventhttp://www.dailydot.com/lol/krispy-kreme-kkk-wednesday-facebook/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/cd/99/cd99af179d650e6593ec4a472585236d.jpg'></p>
<p>Alliteration is all fun and games until you accidentally use the same acronym as a white supremacist group.</p><p>That’s the lesson <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/krispy-kreme/">Krispy Kreme </a>had to learn the hard way after one of the donut giant’s U.K. stores <a href="http://mashable.com/2015/02/17/krispy-kreme-kkk-gaffe-facebook/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link">advertised an event</a> on <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/facebook/">Facebook</a> dubbed “KKK Wednesday.” </p><p>The triple Ks were meant to stand for Krispy Kreme Klub, but they're more&nbsp;widely associated with the <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/kkk/">Ku Klux Klan</a>. As you might expect, many of&nbsp;Krispy Kreme's Facebook fans quickly pointed out the glaring mistake.</p><p>The PR debacle is all the more embarrassing given that "KKK Wednesday"—which has since been scrapped from Krispy Kreme's schedule of "Half Term Activities"—was created as a fun event for children who were on a school break.</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMTYvS3Jpc3B5X0tyZW1lLmpwZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IkZhY2Vib29rIiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6Imh0dHA6Ly9tYXNoYWJsZS5jb20vMjAxNS8wMi8xNy9rcmlzcHkta3JlbWUta2trLWdhZmZlLWZhY2Vib29rLz91dG1fY2lkPW1hc2gtY29tLWZiLW1haW4tbGluayIsImNhcHRpb24iOiIiLCJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div><p></p><p>"KKK Wednesday" (which many have noted falls between "Colouring Tuesday" and "Face Painting Thursday") was created by a Krispy Kreme location in Hull, England, as a chance for kids to decorate their own donuts. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/krispykremeUK?ref=br_tf">The Facebook page</a> for the brand's U.K. stores&nbsp;posted the Hull location's schedule of events, but it quickly removed its post after fans began to sound the alarm about the acronym.</p><p>Krispy Kreme spokeswoman Lafeea Watson issued an apology for the gaffe.</p><p>"We do believe this was a completely unintentional oversight on the part of our longtime franchise partners in the U.K.," she told <em><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/02/17/krispy-kreme-kkk-event-apology/23551235/">USA Today</a></em>. "We are truly sorry for any inconvenience or offense this misstep may have caused our fans."</p><p>The Hull location has promised to take precautions and implement more oversight around its promotional materials in the future.&nbsp;</p><p><em><strong>Correction: </strong>An earlier version of this article had a typo in its first reference to the Ku Klux Klan.</em></p><p><em>H/T&nbsp;<a href="http://mashable.com/2015/02/17/krispy-kreme-kkk-gaffe-facebook/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link">Mashable</a>&nbsp;| Photo via&nbsp;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruthanddave/12839373725/in/photolist-kyz9uv-vqUwB-m7YDqi-5Nwiwx-neD29-poHHPt-g4dLdG-52j9i6-6fLNaL-axdPWt-62vStL-6VFf83-4iDrK6-axgvVu-7BcTqS-8xu61E-9wFGF7-7vkLHb-553cr2-7BiJAC-eYgUr6-PAgJX-BAujm-dCchwU-c7wC2U-9ruxhc-7TCRzp-62DPsh-cmYMph-4scB3S-D5PJr-ouaP2-dC6RsX-neDbC-neD6L-axdPzK-axdPLX-axgvAu-axdNka-owoeXz-ow77rv-owmrcQ-oeTvyn-oeTB5m-oy8ZPZ-oeTCEW-owmtaC-ow77zB-oeTxpX-oeTBnL">ruthanddave</a>/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)</em></p>
gregory.seals@gmail.com (Greg Seals)Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:11:38 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/lol/krispy-kreme-kkk-wednesday-facebook/FacebookLOLExcited New York City tourist gets perfect NSFW welcome from localhttp://www.dailydot.com/lol/nyc-tourist-welcome/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/2c/75/2c754c3a874e01c651de779bd28f21ff.jpg'></p>
<p>The Facebook community <a href="https://www.facebook.com/IMSONYC718/videos?fref=photo">IM SO NYC</a> curates New York-centric videos featuring street performers, buskers, and rats interacting with subway riders. But nothing captures the spirit of Gotham quite like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=882721741748637">this seven-second gem</a>, which is a masterwork of New York City sociology.</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20vdmlkZW8ucGhwP3Y9ODgyNzIxNzQxNzQ4NjM3IiwidHlwZSI6Im9lbWJlZCJ9"></div>In the clip, a woman in a hat records a selfie video while strolling through the streets of New York. "Guys, I've finally made it to New York City!," she belts over the urban din.<p></p><p>One New Yorker off-camera, however, clearly doesn't find her enthusiasm that charming. "Hey lady! Shut the fuck up!," he screams. The dazed and confused look on her face is priceless. Welcome to the Big Apple, lady.&nbsp;</p><p>There are two possible reactions to this video: "Why is this man being so rude to this woman?" and "Heh, I take pleasure in her discomfort." If your response falls into the latter category, congratulations: You've been living in New York way too long.&nbsp;</p><p></p><em>H/T IM SO NYC | Photo via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/stefano60/10215859534/in/photolist-bqT2iV-6GtVkE-5nf9qW-gyJX8d-dnUhGr-cjjba5-akaTRV-9SpKqS-8YwMKE-8UpRYX-7xtpFs-67hybS-5LyyN1-5D4QUT-5AGJZA-5qXwdZ-4gVLFZ-fexof-ca1mj-9xJLv-82WGZ-4Ld9C-o8s3vz-nmCxCT-mykJu2-jqDSBx-is6RHR-ihgq2k-hZYH6v-hSKM5S-hHik5t-hoHs82-hgNM6N-heqDkb-gHgSDH-gvcsRz-fZkwZ8-eSMHkX-em3cg5-ef88Aj-dz1LWP-dnVV29-dnG94q-dkbajP-deenLu-bVxbiz-b9pRSR-aH6kj4-amdDvR-agedpx">Stefano Ravalli/Flickr</a> (CC BY SA 2.0)<br></em><br><p></p>
Dylan LoveTue, 17 Feb 2015 18:57:02 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/lol/nyc-tourist-welcome/FacebookLOLLifestyleWhy it matters if Facebook is rejecting advertisements critical of ithttp://www.dailydot.com/opinion/facebook-ad-controversy/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/ac/8c/ac8c3ad8fd763a6e2078eb500d0440d8.jpg'></p><p>Last week, I encountered something I had never experienced before when purchasing&nbsp;a Facebook promoted post (a form of advertising that places your content&nbsp;right in people’s newsfeeds). I had written an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.simonowens.net/can-facebook-get-us-to-care-about-serious-news" target="_blank">essay</a>&nbsp;about whether Facebook can get us to care about serious news, and if squinted at the right way it could be construed as vaguely critical of Facebook for the media consumption habits it’s enabled. As I often do after writing a new piece, I posted it to my Facebook page and put a little money behind targeting the post toward those who work in the media industry.</p><p>Typically, there’s a short&nbsp;waiting period while Facebook’s algorithms scan your ad and determine whether it’s approved or rejected. If it gets rejected, it’s usually because it violated one of Facebook’s ad guidelines, like the one limiting the amount of text that can be shown in the accompanying image. Usually the wait for approval takes less than 15 minutes.</p><blockquote class="pullquote">&nbsp;This news that Facebook might be censoring ads should give these news companies further pause.</blockquote><p>Not this time though. I can’t remember exactly how much time went by, but it was at least two hours before I received any indication of what happened to my ad. At first, it was just a small bit of text in the ad dashboard telling me the ad was “not running” without saying why. Finally, I received an email from the “Facebook Ads Team” explaining why it was rejected:</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMTQvZmFjZWJvb2stYWQucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiU2ltb24gT3dlbnMiLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiaHR0cDovL3d3dy5zaW1vbm93ZW5zLm5ldC93aHktaXQtbWF0dGVycy1pZi1mYWNlYm9vay1pcy1yZWplY3RpbmctYWR2ZXJ0aXNlbWVudHMtY3JpdGljYWwtb2YtaXQiLCJjYXB0aW9uIjoiIiwid2lkdGgiOiIiLCJ0ZXh0d3JhcCI6IiIsInR5cGUiOiJpbWFnZSJ9"></div><p></p><p>This struck me as odd for two reasons. The first was that it had rejected me for using a Facebook logo in the image—of course I was going to use a Facebook logo when writing an article about Facebook. Any journalist writing about Facebook will likely use some sort of Facebook branding as art.</p><p>The second was the nature in which my ad was rejected. Based on prior experience, Facebook should have been able to quickly scan the ad and reject it within a few minutes. The fact that it took a few hours made me suspicious that it had been somehow flagged by the system and then reviewed by a human—someone who could judge it not just based on whether it misused Facebook’s branding but also on whether it said something that Facebook didn’t like.</p><p>If this was&nbsp;true, then it would be both noteworthy and alarming, and I briefly pondered writing an article about my experience. But I decided to give Facebook the benefit of the doubt. After all, when I swapped out my image for a generic photo of Mark Zuckerberg and resubmitted, my ad got approved. Also, my story would be very anecdotal.</p><p>But this week my experience became slightly less anecdotal. The International Business Times&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/facebooks-internal-dislike-button-protecting-brand-rejecting-unflattering-posts-1813120" target="_blank">published</a>&nbsp;a piece highlighting several instances where Facebook rejected unflattering promoted posts. It first noticed the policy when IBT tried to promote one of its own articles that was critical of Facebook.</p><blockquote><p>A quick Google search of the issue reveals a number of Facebook users rejected for similar reasons. One marketing blogger&nbsp;<a href="http://salesandmarketing.co/2014/05/30/whats-all-the-fuss-about-google/" target="_blank">wrote</a>&nbsp;that she was unable to boost an article about Google Plus, a competing social network. Another&nbsp;<a href="http://diyfunideas.com/win/" target="_blank">said</a>&nbsp;she was unable to boost an article called “The End of Facebook,” which criticized Facebook’s news feed algorithm. And one Facebook user<a href="https://www.facebook.com/artofvlandreth/posts/748842851795005" target="_blank">posted</a>&nbsp;that he was unable to boost a status update that contained a famous viral video from (Google subsidiary) YouTube that accused Facebook of ignoring a widespread problem with so-called like farms.</p></blockquote><p>You may be reading this and thinking: “So what if Facebook rejects ads critical of it? It’s not a news organization and has the right to protect its brand.”</p><p>The reason this is worrisome is that thousands of news organizations are increasingly investing both time and resources in growing their Facebook presence, and Facebook has been actively lobbying them to invest in it even more.</p><p>In late 2013, a report from&nbsp;Shareaholic found that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-wong/facebook-now-drives-16-of_b_4427692.html" target="_blank">17 percent</a>&nbsp;of referral traffic to publishers came from Facebook. By mid-2014 that number was up to&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.shareaholic.com/social-media-traffic-trends-07-2014/" target="_blank">23 percent</a>. &nbsp;There are many news sites out there that derive the majority of their traffic from Facebook (even as others attempt to<a href="http://www.simonowens.net/how-buzzfeed-is-ensuring-its-not-too-dependent-on-facebook" target="_blank">diversify</a>&nbsp;their traffic sources). A few years ago Facebook tweaked its algorithm to produce a traffic hose of visits to news sites, and those sites, wanting to capitalize on that traffic, assigned full-time staffers to optimize&nbsp;both their pages and content for Facebook.</p><p>Recently, as David Carr&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/business/media/facebook-offers-life-raft-but-publishers-are-wary.html?_r=0" target="_blank">reported</a>&nbsp;in the <em>New York Times</em>, Facebook representatives have been going on a “listening tour” to several news publishers in an attempt to get them to host their mobile content within Facebook’s ecosystem, all under the guise of improving the user experience. “That way, they would load quickly with ads that Facebook sells,” Carr wrote. “The revenue would be shared.”</p><p>Some&nbsp;<a href="http://www.simonowens.net/could-facebook-become-to-news-publishers-what-amazon-is-to-book-publishers" target="_blank">have worried</a>&nbsp;that entering this kind of partnership would give Facebook too much leverage over&nbsp;the news media, eventually weakening the media’s ability to make money while strengthening Facebook’s grip on the internet. This news that Facebook might be censoring ads should give these news companies further pause. Do you really want to relinquish&nbsp;your content to a company that might actively suppress news&nbsp;that’s critical of it? Will you be sacrificing&nbsp;your right to report on the most-visited platform on the Internet?</p><p>To be clear, the evidence is still very much anecdotal, and Facebook is denying that any form of censorship is occurring. Still, if I were an audience development director working at a news organization that’s currently contemplating a content partnership with Facebook, then I might want concrete and specific assurances, in writing, from whomever at Facebook I’m negotiating with. Otherwise, you’ll be signing away a lot more than your content with your partnership deal. You may be signing away your very editorial independence.</p><p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p><p>So I decided to run this article as a promoted post on Facebook, and as you’ll see in the screengrab below, my post was “not approved.” Now, unlike my last experience with a rejected ad, this time I made sure to use no official Facebook logos or branding with my thumbnail image. Instead I simply used a photo of Mark Zuckerberg. Again, like last time, I didn’t receive an immediate reason for why my ad was rejected. Given the lack of Facebook branding in my post, it’s hard for me not to conclude that it’s because I was critical of Facebook. Here’s the screengrab:</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMTQvZmFjZWJvb2stYWQtcmVqZWN0LnBuZyIsImNyZWRpdCI6IlNpbW9uIE93ZW5zIiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuc2ltb25vd2Vucy5uZXQvd2h5LWl0LW1hdHRlcnMtaWYtZmFjZWJvb2staXMtcmVqZWN0aW5nLWFkdmVydGlzZW1lbnRzLWNyaXRpY2FsLW9mLWl0IiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><p></p><p>Having my ad rejected made me naturally curious if Facebook was applying these standards equally whether the content was positive or critical of the company. So I created a dummy WordPress account and wrote a short blog post titled “<a href="https://thesocialmedialover.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/why-facebook-is-awesome/" target="_blank">Why Facebook is awesome</a>.” I then posted it to my Facebook page and ordered $10 worth of advertising. A few minutes later I received noticed that the ad was “not approved.”</p><p>This is at least anecdotal evidence that Facebook is rejecting ads even if they’re positive. I still find it worrying, however, because it still means it’s&nbsp;suppressing any ads that mention Facebook or include photos of its logo or CEO. Considering it’s the most widely used Internet platform in the world, this has profound implications for those journalists and media companies who want to cover it.</p><p><em>Simon Owens is a technology and media journalist living in Washington, D.C. This article was </em><a href="http://www.simonowens.net/why-it-matters-if-facebook-is-rejecting-advertisements-critical-of-it" target="_blank"><em>originally published </em></a><em>on his </em><a href="http://www.simonowens.net" target="_blank"><em>personal site</em></a><em>. Follow him on </em><a href="https://twitter.com/simonowens" target="_blank"><em>Twitter</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/simondowens" target="_blank"><em>Facebook</em></a><em>, or </em><a href="https://plus.google.com/+SimonOwens" target="_blank"><em>Google+</em></a><em>. Email him at simonowens@gmail.com.</em></p><p><i><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/108508402@N04/14693004772 ">Photo</a>&nbsp;via&nbsp;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/108508402@N04/ ">Vancsai Erzsébet Gorácz</a>/Flickr (CC BY SA 2.0) | Remix by Jason Reed</i></p>simonowens@gmail.com (Simon Owens)Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:00:00 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/facebook-ad-controversy/FacebookBusinessOpinionOne Facebook user could have deleted every photo on the sitehttp://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-photo-delete-security-hack/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/c4/5c/c45ca38495503248309586468abf6727.jpg'></p>
<p>Given&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook/" target="_self">Facebook</a>'s&nbsp;vast resources and hacker ethos, its site&nbsp;is one of the least hackable social networks around—but where there's a will, there's a way.</p><p>On Thursday, software engineer Laxman Muthiyah published a <a href="http://www.7xter.com/2015/02/how-i-hacked-your-facebook-photos.html">startling discovery</a>: with just a few lines of code, someone could delete your Facebook photos—and everyone's else's—in an instant.</p><p>Muthiyah, a white-hat hacker, provided the vulnerability to Facebook, which like many tech companies awards a "bug bounty" for proof of loopholes in its code like this one. As Muthiyah explained in a blog post titled "How I Hacked Your Facebook Photos," just four lines of code could send a Facebook API call that would trigger the deletion of any photo album a user could find the ID for, whether by guessing, through public permissions, or by having friend permissions. Here's the chunk of code:</p><blockquote class=""><em>Request :-<br></em><em>DELETE /518171421550249 HTTP/1.1<br></em><em> Host : </em><a href="http://graph.facebook.com" target="_blank"><em>graph.facebook.com</em></a><em> <br> Content-Length: 245 access_token=&lt;Facebook_for_Android_Access_Token&gt;</em><br></blockquote><p><strong><em></em></strong></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbS93YXRjaD92PXRyYnJpQl81cVZBIiwidHlwZSI6Im9lbWJlZCJ9"></div>Since Facebook's photo albums are named numerically in sequence, a malicious user could&nbsp;<span style="font-family: 'Georgia Regular', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">theoretically&nbsp;</span>execute a script to delete every photo album ever&nbsp;uploaded to Facebook.<p>Whoa.</p><p>Luckily for us and for Facebook, Muthiyah reported his findings and the company took the hack very seriously.</p><p>"Immediately reported this bug to Facebook security team," Muthiyah wrote, before adding that "there was a fix in place in less than 2 hours from the acknowledgement of the report."&nbsp;<br></p><p></p><p>Muthiyah was rewarded quickly and handsomely with $12,500 through <a href="https://bugbountypayments.com" target="_blank">bugbountypayments.com</a>,&nbsp;and Facebook has since patched the code. Just think, if Muthiyah's hack had fallen into the wrong hands, those freshman-year beer-bong photos could have been gone for good</p><p><em>H/T <a href="http://www.7xter.com/2015/02/how-i-hacked-your-facebook-photos.html">7xter</a>, <a href="http://gizmodo.com/some-guy-figured-out-how-to-delete-every-photo-on-faceb-1685491356">Gizmodo</a>&nbsp;<strong>|&nbsp;</strong>Illustration by Max Fleishman</em></p>
<p></p><p></p>taylor@thedailydot.com (Taylor Hatmaker)Fri, 13 Feb 2015 19:36:08 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-photo-delete-security-hack/FacebookTechObama snubbed by major tech CEOs at cybersecurity conferencehttp://www.dailydot.com/politics/tech-company-executives-obama-cybersecurity-conference/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/80/ec/80ecce91d2aedb85b74b3b71b5c81c44.jpg'></p>
When <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/obama/">President Barack Obama</a> speaks to Silicon Valley on Friday at the&nbsp;White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection, he won't be addressing the full contingent of tech executives whose cooperation he will need on key national-security priorities.<p>The CEOs of <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook/">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/google/">Google</a>, and <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/yahoo/">Yahoo</a> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-11/three-of-tech-s-biggest-ceos-to-skip-obama-cybersecurity-summit">have all declined to attend</a> the summit, which is being held at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. Facebook's <a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/mark-zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a>, Google's Larry Page, and Yahoo's Marissa Mayer will be no-shows at the event, along with Google Chairman Eric Schmidt.</p><p>All three companies, along with many of their industry peers, have faced widespread criticism since damning revelations <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html">began</a> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data">emerging</a> about their close, albeit unwilling, partnership with the <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/national-security-agency/">National Security Agency</a> (<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/nsa/">NSA</a>).</p><p>The absence of Yahoo's Mayer, who took over the company in 2012, is particularly noteworthy. For years, Yahoo has been <a href="http://yahoopolicy.tumblr.com/post/97238899258/shedding-light-on-the-foreign-intelligence">fighting government demands of questionable legality</a>, defying the NSA's requests for troves of user data even as the government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-lawsuit-documents-fine-user-data-refusal">promised to levy</a> $250,000 fines for every day of noncompliance.</p><p>Facebook and Google have made public shows of opposition to the government's sweeping collection of electronic data on Americans, but <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html">concerns</a> <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/googles_secret_nsa_alliance_the_terrifying_deals_between_silicon_valley_and_the_security_state/">remain</a> <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/15/how-the-nsa-fbi-made-facebook-the-perfect-mass-surveillance-tool/">about</a> the companies' relationship with the NSA and other government agencies.</p><p><a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/apple">Apple</a>, <a href="http://time.com/3437222/iphone-data-encryption/">a major thorn</a> in the government's side, is not snubbing the summit. CEO <a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/tim-cook">Tim Cook</a> will be in attendance.</p><p>Facebook, Google, and Yahoo will send "top information security executives" to the event, the companies told Bloomberg.</p><p>White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/12/press-gaggle-deputy-press-secretary-eric-schultz-21215">told reporters</a> aboard Air Force One on Thursday that the Obama administration was not concerned about the high-profile CEO boycott.</p><p>"I think if you look at who will be joining us over the next day or so," Earnest said, "you’ll be looking at industry leaders in the tech industry, in the privacy advocacy community, in academia and government, and business leaders from across the board. So we are gratified and we welcome their participation."</p><p>President Obama's speech Friday at the cybersecurity conference is <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/02/13/obama-apple-seek-tech-detente-at-cybersecurity-summit">intended</a> to reassure tech companies that the government wants to work with them and not railroad them. Although Silicon Valley remains wary of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html">government intrusion into its servers</a>, the tech industry is also concerned about the economic ramifications of similar breaches from foreign agents.&nbsp;The president early this week <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/politics/obama-ctiic-intelligence-sharing-agency/">created an agency</a>, the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, to coordinate cyber-threat data among various agencies.</p><p>Herb Lin, <a href="http://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/herbert_lin">a cybersecurity researcher</a> at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/business/obama-heads-to-security-talks-amid-tensions.html?_r=2">told the <em>New York Times</em></a> that he saw an "enormous degree of hostility between Silicon Valley and the government."</p><p>"The relationship has been poisoned," Lin said, "and it’s not going to recover anytime soon."</p><p><em>H/T <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-11/three-of-tech-s-biggest-ceos-to-skip-obama-cybersecurity-summit">Bloomberg</a> | Illustration by Max Fleishman</em></p>
egeller@dailydot.com (Eric Geller)Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:51:09 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/politics/tech-company-executives-obama-cybersecurity-conference/PoliticsFacebookTechMeet the unhinged successor to 'deranged sorority girl'http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/south-carolina-freshman-next-deranged-sorority-girl/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/5d/79/5d7958fe9f4bf8f2eba8d1952f2413dd.jpg'></p>
<p>For two long years, America has wondered whether any young woman could ever unseat <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/rebecca-martinson-deranged-sorority-girl-dirty-rush-interview/" target="_self">Rebecca Martinson</a> as reigning queen of psychotic <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/sorority/" target="_self">sorority</a> girls. Now the wait is over.</p><p>Unlike Martinson, this pledger-to-be&nbsp;<em>isn’t even in college yet</em>, which gives us high hopes for when she does eventually rush—which she’s totally doing, in case you harbored any doubts. Either she’s got a razor-sharp sense of satire, or shit’s about to get real at South Carolina.</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMi80ZjdmODcyYTNmZGI0NWU3MWUzMmE5NTA1NTZlY2U3MC5wbmciLCJjcmVkaXQiOiJGYWNlYm9vayIsImNyZWRpdExpbmsiOiIiLCJjYXB0aW9uIjoiIiwid2lkdGgiOiIiLCJ0ZXh0d3JhcCI6IiIsInR5cGUiOiJpbWFnZSJ9"></div>Moderators for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/590917734360611/" target="_blank">USC Class of 2019</a>’s <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook/" target="_self">Facebook</a> group were kind enough to let me join despite my graduating from a different college eight years ago, so we can report that this post has disappeared from the page. Meanwhile, there’s a running in-joke about someone named Patricia, presumably the author.<p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMi9ncmFiXzEucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMi9ncmFiXzIucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMi9mYWNlYm9va19zY3JlZW5ncmFiXzMucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMi9ncmFiXzQucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMi9mYWNlYm9va19zY3JlZW5ncmFiXzUucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMi9mYWNlYm9va19zY3JlZW5ncmFiXzYucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div>Writing for BroBible, Martinson herself described Patricia's public and hostile declaration of rank supremacy as "<a href="http://www.brobible.com/college/article/south-carolina-facebook-chick/">the most try-hard post on Facebook</a>" and prophesied that it would get her "blacklisted from every sorority at USC." In an email to the Daily Dot, she gave the mini-screed a lackluster grade of F+.&nbsp;<p></p><blockquote class="">I give it a F+ for not going far enough that it's blatantly a joke and for obviously trying too hard, but it gets a plus for the fact that she supposedly knows how to knit in this day and age. Like I were in a life or death situation and the grim reaper was like "You can either drown in lava or knit me a fancy new scarf" I'd be dead.</blockquote><p>I, for one, just cannot believe it backfired. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p></p><p><em>H/T </em><a href="http://totalsororitymove.com/we-found-the-next-deranged-sorority-girl-after-she-submitted-the-most-insane-post-to-a-university-of-south-carolina-facebook-page/" target="_blank"><em>Total Sorority Move</em></a><em> | Photo by </em><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ywds/310678628" target="_blank"><em>Milica Sekulic</em></a><em>/</em><em>Flickr</em><em> (CC BY 2.0)</em></p>
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miles@dailydot.com (Miles Klee)Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:55:55 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/south-carolina-freshman-next-deranged-sorority-girl/FacebookLOLLifestyle'Redneck News' reporter awaits the apocalypse in post-gay marriage Alabamahttp://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/alabama-man-gay-marriage-video/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/d8/e5/d8e53c9fb6b9082905443fc0dcc39073.jpg'></p>
<p>Though <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/alabama-judge-stakes-out-defiant-stance-against-same-sex-marriages/2015/02/09/a1be2de4-b06f-11e4-854b-a38d13486ba1_story.html">lawmakers are still forcibly refuting </a>the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/same-sex-marriage/">legality of same-sex marriage</a> in <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/alabama">Alabama</a>, some counties have made the bold step to embrace the <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/politics/gay-marriage-alabama-supreme-court/">U.S. Supreme Court's ruling</a> and began issuing marriage licenses on Monday. </p><p>With much of the state still in upheaval over the civil rights issue, many curious Americans have been dying for a report from inside the state to see exactly how citizens have been affected by the overturn of the gay marriage ban. Thankfully, “Redneck News” reporter Jeremy Todd Addaway is on the case. The brave citizen journalist ventured outside his home in Blount County, Ala., on Monday and recorded a dispatch documenting exactly how his property had been affected by the decision.&nbsp;</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20vdmlkZW8ucGhwP3Y9MTAyMDQwOTg5MTM0NTMwNjQiLCJ0eXBlIjoib2VtYmVkIn0."></div><p></p><p>We're happy to report that Addaway wasn't harmed during his expedition to see exactly how homosexuals had affected his brush pile, shed, and "pile of junk." "It looks like we're pretty safe here in Blount County, and we're not gonna be subjected to any plagues of homosexuals falling from the sky," Addaway concludes. &nbsp;</p><p>We'll update if we do hear any further reports of same-sex marriage spreading to the squirrel population, but until then, someone get this man a Pulitzer Prize.&nbsp;</p><p><em>H/T <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeremy-todd-addaway-alabama-gay-marriage">Talking Points Memo</a> | Photo via&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joseanavas/5984944920/in/photolist-a7SpBw-e6tCpd-6NPP8W-4ZMk6V-4ZSaNU-4ZMYbT-hVJ4zS-e6HHHX-qCApzg-e6VLT7-4ZSd5s-4ZMeCT-cnrxqd-cCRVqq-4ZmZs1-e6GnoB-bpRJQj-qXGD-cmYJto-e6MKDG-6sm6Kr-2zTXac-Qu33P-5BuPR1-iPYKJB-hVJ4vG-6rvyLM-qXWh-eUVGRG-e6nZ4x-eUVDwb-5UZ-e6FScX-e6FSBM-eUVM93-hVGtzY-iBRNb9-5BnB9F-7d59Wf-iQ2o2A-e6ucNy-bME-eXHqKg-e6G5yH-e85VbQ-e6tsbD-e6z4g5-e6NsJ1-e7a8vY-4WwnQT">joseanavas</a>/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)</em></p>
gregory.seals@gmail.com (Greg Seals)Thu, 12 Feb 2015 19:26:30 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/alabama-man-gay-marriage-video/FacebookLOLLifestyleThe 5 questions you should ask before choosing your Facebook heirhttp://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-legacy-contact-quiz/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/d6/1e/d61e39a52679b58248830a28e0439bb6.jpg'></p>
<p>Your <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook">Facebook</a> page is the headquarters of your digital identity. It’s got everything from your day-to-day musings and favorite bands to your anniversaries, contact info, and relationship history. It’s a wealth of information that you and you alone have the keys to, but if the unthinkable were to happen, you need to be sure you leave a “spare key” of sorts with the right person. </p><p>Today, Facebook finally gave us the ability to designate someone as our posthumous digital caretaker—<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-legacy-contact-feature/">a person called a legacy contact</a>, who can access your account to change a few key details, manage friends, and turn it into a memorial of sorts—but actually choosing someone to keep your virtual remains in order isn’t easy. Here are the most important questions you need to ask yourself before choosing a loved one to bear the responsibility.</p><h2><strong>1) Will they actually do it?</strong>&nbsp;</h2><p>This is the most important thing to consider. Don’t bother with anyone who you think will be too distracted or grief-stricken to take the time to update your Facebook with a pleasant message and details of any memorial or remembrance that might be taking place. It should be a friend or family member who you trust to keep their wits about them, should the worst occur. </p><h2><strong>2) Are they tech-savvy?</strong>&nbsp;</h2><p>Your first choice to maintain your account after your passing might not be your best bet, especially if they’re not great with a computer. If you’ve had to help them understand what a “desktop” is or remove a dozen obnoxious toolbars from their browser in the past, it’s probably a good idea to pick someone who knows how to better handle all this newfangled technology. </p><h2><strong>3) Are they Internet-accident prone?</strong>&nbsp;</h2><p>If they have a habit of clicking on spam links and getting their Facebook account hijacked by bots once a month, it’s probably not a good idea to give them more responsibility. As your legacy contact, they’ll be able to change your profile images and post notifications to your timeline, and if there’s one thing that you don’t want showing up on your account after you pass, it’s a link for free trial samples of Viagra. </p><h2><strong>4) Will they have a little too much fun with it?</strong>&nbsp;</h2><p>Your Facebook page should remain a pleasant place to visit in the event of your passing, but picking a college buddy or your BFF could turn it into an ever-lasting pit of shame. You don’t want your last profile image to be you shotgunning a beer at a tailgate party or snapping a <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/duckface/">duckface</a> <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/selfie/">selfie</a> at the mall, so avoid anyone who might not realize that how <em>they </em>want to remember you isn’t how you actually should be remembered. </p><h2><strong>5) Will they even accept the offer?</strong>&nbsp;</h2><p>Talking about managing your Facebook page after your death is awkward, but do you know what’s even more awkward? Asking someone to do it and then having them decline. Pick someone who has a strong sense of responsibility and who you can count on no matter what. You don’t want a friendship to be forever tainted by their denial of your offer, so be positive you’re going to get a “yes” in return beforehand. </p><p>In the end, this handful of gut checks will give your Facebook page the best chance of becoming a pleasant digital memorial of your life. Managing your social networks after your passing isn’t the most important thing in the world, but as our lives become more and more digital, it’s nice to have this little matter taken care of.&nbsp;</p><p><em>Photo via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rahimageworks/6295647555/sizes/l">Richard Hurd</a> / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)</em></p>
mwehner@dailydot.com (Mike Wehner)Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:16:09 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-legacy-contact-quiz/FacebookTechAustralia's oldest man knits adorable penguin sweatershttp://www.dailydot.com/lol/austrailian-man-knits-penguin-sweaters/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/44/18/44181b345f90814fee0e0b2bf9a54b13.jpg'></p>
When his knack for knitting was discovered, 109-year-old Alfred Date, Australia's oldest man, <a href="http://minisites.ninemsn.com.au/9stories/8955763/australias-oldest-man-still-knitting-for-human-and-animal-friends-at-109">became the newest knitter</a> of penguin sweaters. Let us explain.<p></p><p></p><p>After moving into a retirement home, nurses noticed Date's keen knitting abilities and recommended he put his skills toward&nbsp;<a href="http://penguinfoundation.org.au/what-s-new/knits-for-nature/">Knits For Nature</a>, which supplies sweaters for sick penguins.&nbsp;</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL1Blbmd1aW5GZG4vc3RhdHVzLzQ0MTQzMTkzMTQxOTIzODQwMCIsInR5cGUiOiJvZW1iZWQifQ.."></div><a href="http://penguinfoundation.org.au/assets/Wildlife-rehabilitation/The-benefits-of-penguin-jumpers-for-little-penguin-rehabilitation_2.pdf">The sweaters help</a> by preventing the precious penguins from preening themselves and ingesting any more of the harmful oil off their bodies. Following the 2001 oil spill near Phillip Island, 96 percent of the injured penguins were successfully saved by the <a href="http://www.penguins.org.au/">Phillip Island Nature Park.&nbsp;</a><p></p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiIvL2NkbjAuZGFpbHlkb3QuY29tL3VwbG9hZGVkL2ltYWdlcy9vcmlnaW5hbC8yMDE1LzIvMTEvUEVOR1VJTl9JTl9QRU5HVUlOX1NXRUFURVIuanBnIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiUGVuZ3VpbiBGb3VuZGF0aW9uL0ZhY2Vib29rIiwiY3JlZGl0TGluayI6IiIsImNhcHRpb24iOiIiLCJ3aWR0aCI6IiIsInRleHR3cmFwIjoiIiwidHlwZSI6ImltYWdlIn0."></div>As if penguins weren't already cute enough.<p></p><p></p><p><em>Photo via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PenguinFoundation/photos/a.513666285320691.114748.513657491988237/709307662423218/?type=1&amp;permPage=1">Penguin Foundation</a>/Facebook</em></p><p></p>
mprice@dailydot.com (Melanie Price)Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:46:35 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/lol/austrailian-man-knits-penguin-sweaters/FacebookLOLA Facebook bug is tagging your mom in pornhttp://www.dailydot.com/lol/facebook-virus-tags-moms-in-porn-videos/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/df/4e/df4e5aa94e9dbf72223f70fc8894bde7.jpg'></p>
<p>I don’t know what kind of weirdos are looking at <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/porn/">porn</a> on <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook/" target="_self">Facebook</a>, but there’s at least 110,000 of them: That’s how many people fell victim to an especially embarrassing piece of malware over just two days of monitoring by virus researchers at Full Disclosure.</p><p>In <a href="http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/131" target="_blank">a brief report for the site</a>, Mohammad R. Faghani explains how the nefarious bit of programming works:</p><blockquote class="">The trojan tags the infected user's friends in an enticing post. Upon opening the post, the user will get a preview of a porn video which eventually stops and asks for downloading a (fake) flash player to continue the preview. The fake flash player is the downloader of the actual malware.</blockquote><p>That malware uses a new technique that Faghani calls “Magnet,” which entails sharing the porn video by tagging a user’s friends—including parents, employers, and significant others. These X-rated wall posts, Faghani notes, “may be seen by friends of the victim's friends as well, which leads to a larger number of potential victims.” Because it only tags 20 people each time, the malware has stayed under the radar despite its rampant spread since late January.</p><p>The silver lining, it would seem, is that even some moms are taking the bait. </p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL2JhZWVlbWlsbGVyL3N0YXR1cy81NjUyNDQyOTE0MTMzMTk2ODAiLCJ0eXBlIjoib2VtYmVkIn0."></div>Anyway, take heed, and maybe tab over to <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/pornhub/" target="_self">Pornhub</a> if you need to watch something dirty?<p></p><p><em>H/T <a href="http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/10/new-facebook-virus-tags-your-mum-in-x-rated-films-5056327/">Metro</a> | Photo via&nbsp;</em><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/5220058302/in/photolist-8Xhatd-5oyj9K-4MuByf-9zJtf-9j1z5j-gV36Qk-A73R7-cWL1wq-7am518-w5oUJ-GbM1x-bAR3JS-5Rv3K9-4nYctS-nWMvgJ-64tUEx-5kzxHf-7ZfumJ-gnTKS-3errCZ-KXgvx-6zFndW-6ENhH2-aXfegz-sXJ-6GQTLr-bzkzd-8MjemA-7GtbQ8-w5oYn-7RZ19H-67DY17-27juhB-w5oVV-5KsZxa-8HB3L2-61yKbK-qHeDY2-5pZwob-7QKMoD-2CF8M-2tguhG-2t2y5-4fdXtj-4DE8V-8Vxa9y-4Givvp-o73ei4-p5XgYE-4LD2jH" target="_blank"><em>Alan Levine</em></a><em>/Flickr&nbsp;</em><em>(CC BY-SA 2.0)</em></p>
miles@dailydot.com (Miles Klee)Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:09:03 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/lol/facebook-virus-tags-moms-in-porn-videos/FacebookLOLLifestyleTechChapel Hill shooter's apparent Facebook page showed his extreme anti-religious attitudeshttp://www.dailydot.com/politics/chapel-hill-shooting-atheist-facebook/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/d8/5f/d85fbaec47edbe4204cfc6db1e6c4113.jpg'></p>
A <a href="http://dailydot.com/communities/facebook/">Facebook</a> page apparently belonging to the alleged Chapel Hill shooter indicates that he may have been motivated by anti-religious sentiment when he committed what many are calling a hate crime.<p>Three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, N.C., <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/crime/chapel-hill-shootings-muslim-hate-crime/">were killed in a shooting</a> near the <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/unc/">University of North Carolina</a> on Tuesday night. The suspect is 46-year-old Craig Stephen Hicks, who turned himself in to the police shortly after the shooting.&nbsp;</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/craig.hicks.967">Hicks' apparent Facebook page</a> reveals an obsessive interest in atheism, with the religion section of his bio featuring a long paragraph where he describes religion as "arrogant" and "a transparent raft of delusions and lies." The Facebook page contains photos that resemble Hicks' publicly released mug shot without a reasonable doubt, and a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/craig-hicks/thumbs-up-to-abc/3228592561830?pnref=lhc">2012 post</a> reveals his corresponding middle name.&nbsp;</p><p>Hicks wrote, "When it comes to insults, your religion started this, not me. If your religion kept its big mouth shut, so would I." His front page banner reads, "Of course I want religion to go away."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMS9oaWNrczEuanBnIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><p></p><p>Many of his posts are linked to atheism and anti-religious messages, including memes and image macros saying things like,&nbsp;"Religion: The world's most successful pyramid scam."&nbsp;</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMC9oaWNrczMucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><br><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMC9oaWNrczQucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div>Under "political views," Hicks expressed libertarian leanings, writing, "I don't care about parties, just each individual and the rights of such in the Constitution! Some call me a gun toting Liberal, others call me an open-minded Conservative."<p>This libertarianism is reflected in his other Facebook posts, which identify him as a supporter of LGBT equality and a handgun enthusiast.</p><p>As first <a href="https://twitter.com/omarghabra/status/565416363641298944">noted</a> by reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/omarghabra">Omar Ghabra</a>, an <a href="http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/3M32SCK377YO6">Amazon wishlist</a> reportedly belonging to Hicks includes numerous other combat supplies, including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CI28O2Y/ref=wl_it_dp_v_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;colid=3M32SCK377YO6&amp;coliid=IW1UMH74H3SIK">a rifle scope</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007H0R3QK/ref=wl_it_dp_v_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;colid=3M32SCK377YO6&amp;coliid=IGPHTLKFZ5PHR&amp;psc=1">tactical blades</a>, and a camouflage <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009O5SGLW/ref=wl_it_dp_v_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;colid=3M32SCK377YO6&amp;coliid=I1K8IJWMNDL0V4&amp;psc=1">ghillie suit</a>,&nbsp;along with more everyday items like <em>Dragon Age: Inquisition</em>&nbsp;and the Val Kilmer crime thriller&nbsp;<em>The Salton Sea</em>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMC9oaWNrczUuanBnIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/richard-dawkins/">Richard Dawkins</a>' <em>The God Delusion </em>is listed among Hicks' favorite books, which might be why Dawkins felt it necessary to condemn the shooting on <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/twitter/">Twitter</a>.<p></p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL1JpY2hhcmREYXdraW5zL3N0YXR1cy81NjU0MzkwODkwMzg4NTIwOTciLCJ0eXBlIjoib2VtYmVkIn0."></div>The shooting is already drawing parallels with recent comments from Dawkins regarding religious extremism, when he called for a "<a href="https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/554241333893029889">massive vocal Muslim condemnation</a>" of jihadists.<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL01ySG9ybmVySGlzdG9yeS9zdGF0dXMvNTY1NDY1NDUzNjk5ODIxNTcwIiwidHlwZSI6Im9lbWJlZCJ9"></div><p><strong>Update 12:10pm CT,&nbsp;Feb. 11: </strong>This report has been updated for clarity and to provide additional attribution.&nbsp;</p><em>Photo via Craig Hicks/Facebook</em><p></p><p></p>
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gavia@thedailydot.com (Gavia Baker-Whitelaw)Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:11:20 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/politics/chapel-hill-shooting-atheist-facebook/NewsPoliticsFacebookDelta's Facebook page shares some highly questionable contenthttp://www.dailydot.com/lol/delta-facebook-page-hacked/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/f6/a3/f6a31032b50ae081ccc7fcc7a1f5aca9.jpg'></p>
<p>In the latest example of the case against brands—especially <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/lol/us-airways-tweets-graphic-photo/">airlines</a>—maintaining a social media presence,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/delta/" target="_self">Delta</a>'s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/facebook/" target="_self">Facebook</a> page was apparently hacked today—and it wasn't pretty.</p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL0RlbHRhTmV3c3Jvb20vc3RhdHVzLzU2NTIyMDUwODMwNDk1NzQ0MSIsInR5cGUiOiJvZW1iZWQifQ.."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-oembed" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL0RlbHRhTmV3c3Jvb20vc3RhdHVzLzU2NTIzMDQ2NjYxNDQzNTg0MCIsInR5cGUiOiJvZW1iZWQifQ.."></div>So what did the hacker (if it really was a hacker and not careless employee) want to share with the 1.5 million people who “like” Delta? We're so glad you asked, because it is really, truly, top-quality content.<p></p><p></p><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMC9COWdPdmVjQ0VBQUlhcjIuanBnIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMC9TY3JlZW5fU2hvdF8yMDE1LTAyLTEwX2F0XzIuMDYuMjFfUE0ucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMC9TY3JlZW5fU2hvdF8yMDE1LTAyLTEwX2F0XzIuMDYuMzRfUE0ucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMC9TY3JlZW5fU2hvdF8yMDE1LTAyLTEwX2F0XzIuMDIuNDZfUE0ucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMC9TY3JlZW5fU2hvdF8yMDE1LTAyLTEwX2F0XzIuMDMuMDFfUE0ucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div><div class="ddgce-embed ddgce-embedded-image" contenteditable="false" data-value="eyJ1cmkiOiJodHRwOi8vY2RuMC5kYWlseWRvdC5jb20vdXBsb2FkZWQvaW1hZ2VzL29yaWdpbmFsLzIwMTUvMi8xMC9TY3JlZW5fU2hvdF8yMDE1LTAyLTEwX2F0XzIuMDcuMjFfUE0ucG5nIiwiY3JlZGl0IjoiRmFjZWJvb2siLCJjcmVkaXRMaW5rIjoiIiwiY2FwdGlvbiI6IiIsIndpZHRoIjoiIiwidGV4dHdyYXAiOiIiLCJ0eXBlIjoiaW1hZ2UifQ.."></div>The posts vanished within an hour of the first one appearing, but they will remain here until the Daily Dot’s servers are ash and dust blowing across a featureless wasteland. You’re welcome!<p></p><p><em>Photo by </em><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bz3rk/3019530593/sizes/o/" target="_blank"><em>James Willamor</em></a><em>/</em><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bz3rk/" target="_blank"><em>Flickr</em></a><em> (CC BY-SA 2.0)</em></p>
miles@dailydot.com (Miles Klee)Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:57:55 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/lol/delta-facebook-page-hacked/FacebookBusinessLOL